Title: Wars of the third kind: conflict in underdeveloped countriesAuthor: Rice, Edward E. (Edward Earl) 1909-Published: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: Politics | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: Most of the armed conflicts since World War II have been neither conventional nor nuclear, but wars of a third kind, usually fought in the Third World and relying heavily, although not exclusively, on guerrilla warfare. Edward E. Rice examines a number of conflicts of this sort, starting with the Am . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar JapanAuthor: Finn, Richard BPublished: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: History | AsianHistory | Japan | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Education and society in late imperial China, 1600-1900Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946-Published: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: History | AsianHistory | ChinaPublisher's Description: This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays pr . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920Author: Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle) 1916-Published: University of California Press, 1989Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays a . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern JapanAuthor: Vlastos, Stephen 1943-Published: University of California Press, 1998Subjects: History | Japan | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952Author: Brook, Timothy 1951-Published: University of California Press, 2000Subjects: History | China | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Death ritual in late imperial and modern ChinaAuthor: Watson, James LPublished: University of California Press, 1988Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese villageAuthor: Hinton, WilliamPublished: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideologyAuthor: Crossley, Pamela KylePublished: University of California Press, 2000Subjects: History | China | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Japan's Orient: rendering pasts into historyAuthor: Tanaka, StefanPublished: University of California Press, 1995Subjects: History | AsianHistory | JapanPublisher's Description: Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The culture of civil war in KyotoAuthor: Berry, Mary Elizabeth 1947-Published: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: History | Japan | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time.Using d . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Peasant protests and uprisings in Tokugawa JapanAuthor: Vlastos, Stephen 1943-Published: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: History | Japan | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugaw . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: IndiaAuthor: Wolpert, Stanley A 1927-Published: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: History | South Asia | AsianHistoryPublisher's Description: The history of India is the engrossing story of an ancient civilization, reborn as a modern nation. More a continent than a single nation, India is home to over one-fifth of humanity, yet it remains a mystery to most non-Indians, barely appreciated and poorly understood. Stanley Wolpert's India prov . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: War and popular culture: resistance in modern China, 1937-1945Author: Hung, Chang-tai 1949-Published: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: History | AsianHistory | ChinaPublisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popu . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920Author: Wigen, Kären 1958-Published: University of California Press, 1995Subjects: History | Geography | AsianHistory | JapanPublisher's Description: Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Ja . . . [more]Similar Items